US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 22 for "Patient table and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,842, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Patient table and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Koki Ishii (Tokyo), Atsushi Ota (Tokyo) and Takashi Chuman (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient table includes: a movable top plate; a leg portion that supports the top plate; a signal conversion unit that is disposed inside the top plate and includes an A/D converter and an electrical-to-optical converter which convert a signal obtained from a receive coil unit into an optical signal; an optical cable that transmits the optical signal output from the signal conversion unit; and an opti...